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MEDIA HYBRIDS Sunday November 10, 2019 Lecture/demonstration with renowned artist Stephen Broomer.

Register HERE.

Join artist Stephen Broomer for a lecture/demonstration where participants will learn a brief history of material hybrid forms in experimental filmmaking. Participants will explore techniques related to the plastic manipulation of film and the resonance of these techniques in contemporary digital tools.

Stephen Broomer will discuss the basic handling of programs like Adobe Premiere and After Effects to explore the plasticity of images; no experience with these programs is required. Primary skills discussed will include basic keyframe animation of scale, transparency, time and exploring opacity and blending modes. Participants will learn about the historical use of optical printers in experimental filmmaking and the ways in which these instruments can influence a contemporary digital workflow.

NOTE: Limited seating, get your tickets early to secure your spot at this workshop. This is a co-presentation of Cineworks, Iris Film Collective and ECUAD.

MEDIA HYBRIDS Sunday November 10, 2019 Lecture/demonstration with renowned artist Stephen Broomer.

Register HERE.

Join artist Stephen Broomer for a lecture/demonstration where participants will learn a brief history of material hybrid forms in experimental filmmaking. Participants will explore techniques related to the plastic manipulation of film and the resonance of these techniques in contemporary digital tools.

Stephen Broomer will discuss the basic handling of programs like Adobe Premiere and After Effects to explore the plasticity of images; no experience with these programs is required. Primary skills discussed will include basic keyframe animation of scale, transparency, time and exploring opacity and blending modes. Participants will learn about the historical use of optical printers in experimental filmmaking and the ways in which these instruments can influence a contemporary digital workflow.

NOTE: Limited seating, get your tickets early to secure your spot at this workshop. This is a co-presentation of Cineworks, Iris Film Collective and ECUAD.

TONDAL’S VISION   with director Stephen Broomer in person   Saturday November 9, 7:30pm Rennie Hall ECUAD   and   MEDIA HYBRIDS a lecture and demonstration with Stephen Broomer at Cineworks   Sunday November 10.

We are thrilled to be partnering with ECUAD and Cineworks to present the Vancouver Premiere of Stephen Broomer’s TONDAL’S VISION (a free screening) as well as a lecture/demo on the director’s techniques. (more info & registration for the demo click HERE.)

Last year we presented Broomer’s breathtaking experimental feature POTAMKIN. TONDAL’S VISION continues Broomer’s astounding body of work taking found materials, radically reworking them on 16mm film and then further digitally to create truly visionary works. Recently screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, MURA (Peru), Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, and Alchemy Film & Arts (UK), TONDAL’S VISION is, in the director’s words:

A fable and immram, sifted from the cloak and rubble of the Comedy, a vision before Dante. The soul of the knight Tondal, stricken by the excesses of his flesh, quits his body to tour the next world. He is guided by an angel through heaven, hell and limbo. What lessons await him here? To every pleasure there is a cost, for poetry is a kind of poison, and even your angels will get you lost. Angel, tell me, for how long was I dead? Be it true or be it false, it is as the copy was. The wavering, brightly coloured bodies of archival celluloid, mutilated to the margins of figurative representation, gripped me for the full runtime.   -Adina Glickstein  Hyperallergic The bold strokes and colours of the visuals are utterly glorious to revel in and give the entire film a painterly quality that speaks to Broomer’s multidisciplinary interests and ties this contemporary vision to an imagined supernatural past and an actual art historical one.  -Ben R Nicholson  MUBI

“I rephotographed Giuseppe de Liguoro's 1911 adaptation of Dante's Inferno...once processed, I had roughly 2000 feet of 16mm film for experimentation, applying mordancage chemistry to the film. The goal of this process was to create a largely abstract adaptation of Tondal's Vision, in colour, applied through tint, tone, paint and digital tools, that draws from the colour palette of Simon Marmion's illuminations for the fifteenth-century manuscript, Les Visions du chevalier Tondal.” -Stephen Broomer

NOT TO BE MISSED!

TONDAL’S VISION   with director Stephen Broomer in person   Saturday November 9, 7:30pm Rennie Hall ECUAD   and   MEDIA HYBRIDS a lecture and demonstration  with Stephen Broomer at Cineworks    Sunday November 10.

We are thrilled to be partnering with ECUAD and Cineworks to present the Vancouver Premiere of Stephen Broomer’s TONDAL’S VISION (a free screening) as well as a lecture/demo on the director’s techniques. (more info & registration for the demo click HERE.)

Last year we presented Broomer’s breathtaking experimental feature POTAMKIN. TONDAL’S VISION continues Broomer’s astounding body of work taking found materials, radically reworking them on 16mm film and then further digitally to create truly visionary works. Recently screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, MURA (Peru), Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, and Alchemy Film & Arts (UK), TONDAL’S VISION is, in the director’s words:

A fable and immram, sifted from the cloak and rubble of the Comedy, a vision before Dante. The soul of the knight Tondal, stricken by the excesses of his flesh, quits his body to tour the next world. He is guided by an angel through heaven, hell and limbo. What lessons await him here? To every pleasure there is a cost, for poetry is a kind of poison, and even your angels will get you lost. Angel, tell me, for how long was I dead? Be it true or be it false, it is as the copy was. The wavering, brightly coloured bodies of archival celluloid, mutilated to the margins of figurative representation, gripped me for the full runtime.   -Adina Glickstein  Hyperallergic The bold strokes and colours of the visuals are utterly glorious to revel in and give the entire film a painterly quality that speaks to Broomer’s multidisciplinary interests and ties this contemporary vision to an imagined supernatural past and an actual art historical one.   -Ben R Nicholson  MUBI

“I rephotographed Giuseppe de Liguoro's 1911 adaptation of Dante's Inferno...once processed, I had roughly 2000 feet of 16mm film for experimentation, applying mordancage chemistry to the film. The goal of this process was to create a largely abstract adaptation of Tondal's Vision, in colour, applied through tint, tone, paint and digital tools, that draws from the colour palette of Simon Marmion's illuminations for the fifteenth-century manuscript, Les Visions du chevalier Tondal.” -Stephen Broomer

NOT TO BE MISSED!

“One’s sight is inverse to one’s eyes;   The begger with empty sockets sees   The microscope lies;   But these   Who are truly blind are wise.”   Harry Alan Potamkin  

Iris Film Collective and Cineworks are very excited to present emulsion-manipulator extraordinaire Stephen Broomer’s jaw-dropping new feature  

POTAMKIN  

SCREENED ON 16mm

POSTPONED! NEW DATE: FRIDAY MARCH 2 8pm Cineworks Studio (1131 Howe Street, lane entrance)   This is a free screening.  

A prolific film critic of the silent and early sound era who died young in 1933, Harry Alan Potamkin left behind a corpus of incisive writings that speak from the radical, activist left wing of criticism, demanding that film and art do more to champion the social movements of the day. In Potamkin, Toronto filmmaker Stephen Broomer compiles images and scenes from almost 100 films that Potamkin wrote about to create a speculative biography of the critic's life, a rich collage that both illuminates the individual and imagines him subsumed into the collective he so passionately championed. Applying chemical treatments to the rephotographed footage, Broomer amplifies the impending sense of catastrophe so keenly felt in the first three decades of the 20th century; the already stark and powerful imagery that the filmmaker has harvested from the dawn of cinema is augmented as the emulsion of the black-and-white film crackles and ripples with tension and decay. (Canada  66 minutes  2017  B&W  Audio with no dialogue)